Announcing name on FB

It's a very personal thing, entirely down to what you're comfortable with. We haven't 'announced' on Facebook yet...I want it to be something that just became apparent but think it's going to be difficult to achieve that!

We're not actually planning to find out the gender (although I might cave in) but we would keep it to ourselves. We also aren't planning any names in particular, we'll choose the one we like when we meet him/her.
 
Surely by announcing the name you have less chance of close friends using it. And if a distant friend / acquaintance uses it who cares?! I doubt they will be the only child in the world with that name?!

I'm not bothered about people 'stealing' his name at all, was more asking about whether you guys think it kills the excitement or helps it to grow more as giving a name to the people helps others to visualise him/ see him as real etc?

THIS! I feel the same way!
 
I shared my name right off the bat to anyone who asked, and also on FB. I've gotten various non-verbal reactions to it, and I could not care less, honestly. No one has actually said anything rude about our choice, because people know me, and know that it would be a big mistake to do any such thing in my presence. LOL!

I don't worry about it ruining the surprise for anyone, or detracting from the excitement. My child has a name, it's not a secret, and that's his identity, and what we've chosen to do.

Everyone is entitled to do their own thing with this, obviously! There is no wrong way to do it!
 
We havent revealed our possible names to people on FB yet, but once we find out the gender im sure we will refer to baby by its name.
We revealed our names on FB last time and had people making comments like 'aww i love the name Keira, it reminds me of my mates big slobbery dog' not sure if it was an attempt to put us off the name but it seemed passive agressive to me and for that reason we wont be announcing until we know for definate that we will be using the name we've chosen :thumbup:
 
Keeping the name secret certainly makes things more exciting for me. I don't think anyone else gives a darn, to be honest. lol Most of my friends either stay Team Yellow or keep the gender a surprise if they find out for themselves so names are usually a secret in my circles. Our parents bugged us with DS and we gave them obviously fake names so they don't bother us this time.

I'm not so fussed about friends stealing our name especially as I adore the classics but when my brother and his wife found out they were expecting we privately asked them to not use the name we wanted. Cousins are different. Their baby was born before ours, but we had been pregnant twice before and lost those babies so the name we picked was very precious to us. We did ask though. We let them know that if they really wanted to use it we couldn't stop them. It was a rather unprecedented move. They did end up respecting our request. I don't even know if they would have considered it otherwise. My SiL and I generally have very different tastes.
 

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